Community buildings

Giving comfort to trustee boards

A community building rarely has a facilities team, so the ventilation has to look after itself. Budgets are tight and running costs come out of hire income, which makes them as important as comfort. Windhive® is low maintenance, low cost to run, and operates autonomously.

Windhive ventilation on a community building

The real world challenges

The challenge How Windhive helps
  • Summer events becoming uncomfortable
  • Stuffy, high-CO2 air during busy gatherings
  • Complicated and noisy mechanical ventilation during events and services
  • Running costs paid from limited budgets
  • No facilities team at site
  • Passive ventilation with heat recovery, running on wind and buoyancy
  • Fresh air responding to occupancy, without a fan in the room
  • Silent in use, through events, services and performances
  • Low ventilation running cost
  • Few moving parts and remote monitoring instead of call-outs

Performance that holds up at tender

zero

Fans

up to 72%

Heat recovery

UK

Designed and manufactured in the UK

Each unit saves 1,600 kWh per year*

*When modelled against typical natural ventilation strategies that do not have heat recovery


Planning a hall refurbishment or a funding application?

Send us the hall and the occupancy pattern and we will come back with a Windhive layout.

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